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Lunch here is a bargain. For $7 you get a mango lassi, samosa, choice of 2 entrees and naan. Save room for the carrot halwa--its delicious.
Awesome combination of Indian cafeteria and Indian grocery store. This is the best place I've found to buy a lot of spices, particularly stuff like cardamom, cloves, and cinnamon. The cafeteria food is alright, but a little bland. Still an awesome place overall.
Lousiest possible quality of grocery products! – As Indians, when we moved to Burbank some months back, it was amusing to hear such a variety of quality complaints about the nearest Indian grocery-India Sweets & Spices, Los Feliz, from our fellow Indian friends/ colleagues. We were advised to always travel to Artesia(30 miles away!)for our Indian ration! Still, from October, 2011- March, 2012, we made 3 trips to this grocery..guess we were destined to learn the hard way! Our 1st visit was near Diwali and focussed mainly on a mixture of festival sweets. While most of these turned out okay, some turned out stony hard from the middle. I didn't buy some Diwali decorations that I really liked coz I thought them unreasonably overpriced. However, the real nightmares were related to subsequent visits when we bought a large amount of Indian food supplies. The stuff that turned out right doesn't matter in this case-Our chickpeas, and black Bengal gram were worm infected (yes!), so I'd to throw away entire packs! Unshelled pistachios some of which our kid and us consumed as soon as we came home turned out to have fungus on closer inspection later that day! I actually consoled us by the fact people stayed fine on daredevil TV shows even after consuming much worse stuff! My husband and I had an exhausting time on each visit. Imagine having to scan EVERY single item you intend to buy to ensure its date is still valid! Many items here don't have any relevant dating information one wud like to know before a buying desicion,like our pistachios. Many items in the Indian namkeens and snacks section are past their expiry or best before dates;stale and soggy; and we saw some with their dating info.blackened out!! That's why we couldn't buy many items in the quantity we intended to despite so many lying around. In fact, on our 2nd visit, a lady arranging namkeen packs tried to motivate us to buy more since they'd a discount. When my husband saw that the pack he picked up was past its expiry date and pointed out the purposelessness of a discount at the cost of one's health, she seemed embarrassed and tried to point out fresher stuff. Twice we also politely expressed similar concerns about the freshness of products to the elderly gentleman, who seems to be the main owner. He too merely tried to smilingly avoid the issue by immediately offering to bring out fresher stock or pointing out alternate stuff, and trying to engage one in over familiar chatter( which wud be tolerable if the quality of their products also was!) Finally, the receipt we get for our purchases is the most absurd I've ever seen! No item names! It is a printout of different prices against a single code repeating itself(ex: 'DEPT 19' repeating 25 times if one buys 25 items!), perhaps only meant to be comprehended by the sellers,not by the poor guys emptying their pockets on whatever it stands for! Anyway, it has taken us 3 visits and over $350 to conclude we NEVER WANNA GO BACK there because we now have zero trust in their quality practices or in their concern for their customer's wellbeing. I feel so cheated and angry at having spent time & hard earned money to buy things only to throw them into the trash! I know that the owners have been made aware of such overwhelming quality concerns by people like us yet it doesn't seem like they really care, as long as they can go on(thanks perhaps to so many people who will complain bitterly but never make an effort to write down their experiences!) Perhaps the owners are happy sticking to profits with the very ordinary fare at their restaurant section, where the prices are cheap, but coming straight from India I know how much better the taste shud be.(I liked only the mango lassi).I admit I terribly wanted India Sweets & Spices to've worked out right for me. But,when a business cares so little for its responsibility towards its customers and seems so determined not to gain the goodwill of those who give it a chance, one really has no choice!
Great resource! – If you are a home cook, you will love this place! Any spice that you can imagine (and many you didn't know existed) is here. It's a great place to shop! Bonus is that they have a section in the back of the store for British foods that are sometimes hard to find (teas & biscuits).
What a find!!! Tasty tasty tasty! – I never would have found this place on my own. I am so glad I did though! Its kind of a....well it's a hole! I was kind of scared, and if it wasn't for my friend, I would have walked out. But the food was so good. Very flavorful. The samosa was my favorite! The prices are great too! Two of us ate and drank for $13.00
I definately recommend this place.
But skip the little side salad. I gagged on that one.
Very flavorful vegetarian dishes! – I stumbled into this hidden treasure on my way home from Griffith Park because I had a taste for spicey food. I came in and adjacent to the deli-style restaurant is an Idian-produce grocery store which is cool, but I was hungry right away, so I ordered their lunch special (3 to choose from ... I think they're all under $9/ea.). Since I'd never even known there was such a thing as Indian vegeterian restaurant (or deli), I ordered the least expensive lunch special. I think it was $6+? Anyway; it's been a couple of months since my last trip there, but I do recall having some sort of spicy tofu, a sort of lentil bean soup and rice, and a flaky pastry stuffed with potato; and all of it was truly delicious! I've been meaning to go back for more, but I don't eat out much at all. I will go back in the near future though, because as I'm telling you about my delicious experience, I'm getting hungrier! I may just stop by this afternoon. After all their dishes are served deli style so I can just buy a couple of different things and bring them home for dinner for my family. hmmm... I'm ingenious!
great vegetarian indian – Yummy vegetarian Indian food at excellent prices. Great chai tea (real stuff not nasty Starbucks powdered variety), tasty array of Indian sweets and a great grocery store attached.
Flavorful Indian (Vegetarian) Food... – It's been almost two years since a scathing review of the cleanliness/food of the 'restaurant' portion of this large Indian/British grocery store-cum Indian takeway/cafeteria.
I thought I'd tilt the chips the other way, to be fair. Firstly, think of it as a cafeteria, not as a restaurant. It's connected to a grocery store, for God's sake! Don't expect 4-star service. I do one of two things here: buy the food to eat there, and watch great Bollywood-style music videos on the large screen and chill out, or (preferably) order a few containers of curry to go. I'm not even a vegetarian, yet their curries are totally flavorful and satisfying. Their pumpkin/squash curry, when they have it, is a must. I could eat vats of it. The small container (half-pint?) is only $3.50. Where else could you get Indian curry for $4? Their lentil vadas (like a lentil fritter) is yummy and they give you two sauces to dip it in. It's deep fried, of course it's good.
I think it's a better value to select a few curries you like to go in the containers, than purchase the lunches, which is why I do it this way now. You could grill some meat or fish at home and purchase the curries for the side dishes...the best of both worlds!
I agree the proprieters could focus on quality control more (in the grocery section) rather than trying to keep the shelves of their vast emporium filled. But the things I purchase here are fine (mango pickle, PG Tips tea, spices), I check the expiration date (as I would anywhere), and all is well. They are friendly (reasonably enough) and helpful, and I don't think they deserve some of the scathing posts here.
I am a foodie, I am a cook, I buy from both the grocery store and eat from the restaurant regularly (once/month). Be open-minded and you will be rewarded. Save some pumpkin curry for me. :)
Not a pleasant experience! – I just want everyone to know that I'm Indian and I know that Indian stores aren't the cleanest however, there are some serious risks here... In the store sections, most of their products on the shelves are expired. I saw something on the shelf that had been expired for 10 years! Also their freezer section was more like a refrigeration section. We told them that their freezer was broken. They were aware of this, but were still selling the food. Who knows how long it has been like that, and how long it will be. My guess is that if they get their freezer up and running that they will just allow those products to refreeze and continue to sell them. Please be warned.
average store with large selections – While it has a large collection of things, the refrigerated section has items that are not completely frozen. The certainly diminishes the quality and shelf-life of the frozen foods
Giant Indian supermarket – This is the only place I can find everything I need for cooking Indian food, even the special utensils. Like any supermarket, they offer prepared foods in their freezer and refrigerated sections, so you can enjoy prepared Indian food at home or at work for lunch. They have the Indian versions of Hamburger Helper -- packaged spice mixes. Their tea selection is staggering and much cheaper than any Western supermarket. They also have a small section of English foods.
The only food I've bought in the restaurant section is the amazing, addictive, delicious burfi, which is Indian milk fudge. This sweet is to die for! Especially around Halloween, which is their Dewali festival, they have loads of extra sweets to celebrate this holiday.
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The book says it's the size of your hand. Make sure it's 100% whole wheat! No white allowed.
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No doubt, though, Moses was already experiencing his Promised Land in the journey.
Tuesday: The Commandment
In our world God says: Do not put your trust in gods that that cannot save—your
looks, intelligence, money. Do not put your trust in your children, wife, husband, your
home. They cannot save you. God is security, the rock of our salvation.
Wednesday: Sin
The original notion of sin is not to impute guilt; it's to name reality.
What is going on in our lives, in our society that is so blinding, so addictive? What is
trapping us from loving God and neighbor and being truly alive? Those are our questions
for Lent.
Thursday: Romans 7
Read Romans 7 sometime, live with the agony of Paul and see that he's
just like every one of us. Why do I do what I don't want to do? Paul says,
"Who will rescue me from this body doomed to death?" Yet he follows with,
"This I know, in Christ there is no condemnation."
Friday: Confession
Confession is not just for the confessional. There's non-sacramental
confession. Sometimes, maybe even more often, we need to confess to a wife, husband, child,
friend—someone who has the power to recognize and receive the sinner. The sense of
personhood that comes from truthfulness is immense.
Saturday: A Radical Call
We must somehow be a Church growing in resistance. Faith and resistance must
be reconnected in our hearts and in our corporate decisions. Otherwise we are always drawn
into passing fads and cultural biases.
Second Sunday of Lent:—The Transcendence of God
Worship means lifting our hands to a God who seems totally beyond us. Modern
humanity has lost the call to worship because it's a blow to our pride and sophistication
to worship God who is total otherness. Is adoration pushing God away from us? NO! It's
allowing God to make the voluntary move toward us.
Monday: Spirituality of Subtraction
The medieval mystic Meister Eckhardt said the spiritual life has much more
to do with subtraction than with addition. Yet Christians today are involved in a spirituality
of addition. Consumer culture wants us to have more. God wants us to let go.
Tuesday: Discernment
Ego is not the love of God; it's the love of self. Basically it is
the need to control reality and think well of oneself. Yet we put all of our efforts into
controlling the shadow or dark side of our personality. Jesus is clearly saying the shadow
is not the problem; but power and pride are.
Wednesday: Back to Basics
Life in parts of the world is basic: the beautiful mornings, the fresh, clean
breeze, so many birds, the temperature constant with the body's. Not only did humankind
likely begin here, but somehow it is still beginning here. We need to embrace the basics.
Thursday: Freedom From Self
In Christ you don't need the false self. You have faced the enemy once
and for all and, guess what? It's you!
Friday: Do We Love Christ?
When was the last time you heard that someone was thrown out of the Church
for not rejoicing and exalting when they were criticized? Jesus taught that we should.
Do we conveniently ignore much of the New Testament?
Saturday: From Mertons Hermitage
Have you ever spent 24 hours of your life in solitude and silence without
another person defining you, needing you, talking to you? What happens is you have to go
to the Lord for identity, asking, "Who am I now, Lord?"
Third Sunday of Lent: Jesus Commandment Is Love
We must learn to move beyond ourselves, to say no to instant gratification,
to set limits on our own needs and somehow meet someone else's needs. That's
why Jesus commanded us to love. Until we love, we really do not even know who we are.
Monday: Praying in Your Rhythm
There isn't just one way to be in prayer, communication or relationship.
Respect the rhythm of your life and know that it will change at different periods of your
Tuesday: Longing for Union
To talk to God takes a childlike attitude. If we need always to be in control,
we can't talk like a child to our mother.
Wednesday: The Self-Revelation of God
The dialogue between God and humanity is the give-and-take of self-revelation
and response. In prayer God is gradually disclosing, revealing who God is.
Thursday: Real Prayer
The most simple rule for good prayer is honesty and humility. One can never
go wrong with those two, even if it means giving God your anger or distractions.
Friday:—God Is Seducing Us
God put passion within us so that we could understand some of what God is about.
Will we ever trust that desirous and desiring place within our own hearts, where God is
a passionate God?
Saturday:—Love Your Enemies
Fear is the major barrier to the emergence of great faith and great-souled
people. How many of us love other people who kick us around, who make it hard for us? That's
what Jesus commands.
Fourth Sunday of Lent: I Will Be With You
Moses's power is the presence of the Lord. That's all! In every
religious experience in the Bible, a person comes to an experience of God and God says
simply, "I will be with you."
Monday: Keep a Blank Sheet Ready
Get your own agenda, hurts, neediness and fears out of the way, so that you've
offered God a blank sheet to write on when it's time to write some words on your
Tuesday: Our Daily Bread
The whole message of the Hebrew people in the desert is a message of continued
dependence on God, minute-by-minute learning to trust in Providence.
Wednesday: The Security to Be Insecure
God calls us on a journey of faith, like walking into a darkened room. We
walk slowly, bumping into things. We learn total dependence on God.
Thursday: Stripped in the Desert
When all of our idols are taken away, all our securities and defense mechanisms,
we find out who we really are. God takes away our shame, and we are able to present ourselves
to God poor and humble.
Friday: Love Challenges the Beloved
Humans do not want a God of love: We seek to hide from it and destroy it.
So people sought to destroy Jesus. Religion, lightly taken, is more comfortable than religion,
a love relationship.
Saturday: Jesus Saves
The apostles speak with boldness and fire. In the name of Jesus all power
is given to me! Are we Catholics today proud of Jesus?
Fifth Sunday of Lent: The Attitide of Faith
Unless we can presume that the Lord is speaking right now, how can we believe
that he ever spoke? To have an attitude of faith is to hear the Lord speaking everywhere
and all the time, in the concrete and ordinary experiences of our lives.
Monday: Fought-for Faith
God gives us meaning, not answers. The suffering of life is the suffering
of every marriage union, every love relationship, like the suffering of the prophets in
their relationship to God.
Tuesday: Becoming Who We Really Are
God takes human life seriously. To come into this world we will discover
ourselves as beloved son, daughter, brother, sister, mother and father.
Wednesday: Earning Gods Love
The greatest act of faith is to believe God loves you, even in your nakedness,
poverty and sinfulness. Regardless of what we think, we do not earn God's love.
Thursday: Perfection
None of us is perfect. God loves us exactly as we are. There is nothing to
attain for God to love us any differently. That's a liberating message.
Friday: The This-ness of Things
Creation is always redemption. Already in the act of creation, God has named
you. God created you as you, in your unique "this-ness."
Saturday: Foundation of Life
You can only build on life; all else is sand. Our journey into ever-deeper
life is the essence of faith community.
Palm Sunday: I Love You
The supreme irony of the whole crucifixion scene is this: He, who was everything,
had everything taken away from him. He, who was the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, was
crowned with thorns. He is the eternal sign of God to humans, yet his arms were nailed
open because he said in his life three most dangerous words: "I love you."
Monday: Patience
Why should God give us anything we ourselves are not willing to work for?
We pray, "Do it, God!", but also "We will do it, too!" God creates
and invites us to co-create. What trust and infinite patience!
Tuesday: The Time Is Here!
Salvation is now. We have a tendency to point ourselves backward or forward
in time, but the Gospels say either we are letting Jesus save us now or we are not letting
him save us at all.
Wednesday: Father and Son
Jesus praying to Abba, "Daddy,"
brings out the beautiful relationship in which Jesus grows with his Father, of being the
loving, trusting son. In Gethsemane, and from the cross, he cries out, "Daddy!" Jesus
seeks at all costs to be true to his Father.
Holy Thursday: Footwashing
Peter symbolizes all of us as he protests,
"You will never wash my feet!" (Jn 13:8). Sometimes we think we are being heroic
in not letting God love us. Yet only when Peter allows Jesus to minister to him does he
experience Jesus' meaning.
Good Friday: The Price of Truth
The cross is our obedience to the price of truth and love—with no assurance
that it is going "to work." As in the life of Jesus, the cross leads us to
perfect faith. The cross is doing the truth, laying down one's life for one's
Easter Vigil: Love It to Death
Jesus is our guarantee of God's promise. What happened in his body
is the pattern of what must happen in all of the cosmos. We are optimistic because we look
at him and see the final pattern: It worked; the leap of faith was not in vain.
This Update is excerpted from the St. Anthony Messenger Press book Radical
Grace: Daily Meditations by Richard Rohr, edited by John Feister. Fr. Richard, a Franciscan,
is author of numerous books, an international speaker and founder of the Center for Action
and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Washington, D.C.—The American Dental Association (ADA) and A.T. Still University's Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health (ATSU-ASDOH) announced today the launch of the Community Dental Health Coordinator (CDHC) education and training program based at ATSU's Mesa, Ariz., campus. The program will provide training for community health workers with emphasis on oral health education, prevention, and helping patients who may normally face barriers to care, receive dental care.
ATSU-ASDOH is one of four university-affiliated dental schools providing the CDHC program, which is jointly sponsored by the ADA the other universities offering programs in conjunction with their dental schools include Philadelphia's Temple University, the University of Oklahoma and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). In their initial phase of training in Arizona, students will complete 12 months of online coursework administered by Rio Salado College in Tempe, Ariz. Upon successfully completing the didactic portion of their training, students begin six-month internships.
Temple University's Kornberg School of Dentistry trains students to work in inner cities; the University of Oklahoma trains students to serve in remote rural areas; and students currently at the UCLA School of Dentistry are training to work in American Indian communities. The UCLA CDHC program will end with the graduation of its second class of students in fall 2011. The final group of students (Cohort 3) training to work in American Indian communities will begin and complete their training in the ASDOH program.
"We're excited to open this final phase of the CDHC pilot project at the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health," said ADA President Raymond F. Gist, D.D.S. "It will leverage the University's many ties to the American Indian community and its proximity to both Rio Salado College and the southwestern tribal communities in which some CDHCs will work."
ATSU-ASDOH has the largest contingency of tribally enrolled American Indian dental students of any dental school in the nation, with a 100 percent graduation rate for Native students. All of ATSU-ASDOH's Native graduates practice in Native communities.
"We're delighted to join this pilot project," said ATSU-ASDOH Dean Jack Dillenberg, D.D.S., M.P.H. "The CDHC model is a natural fit with our mission and goals, a community-based education model to create caring community leaders who help those in need."
Dr. Gist called the presence of George Blue Spruce, D.D.S., M.P.H., ATSU-ASDOH's assistant dean for American Indian Affairs, and the nation's first American Indian dentist, "an incalculable asset." Dr. Blue Spruce is a former U.S. assistant surgeon general and director of the Indian Health Service's Phoenix Area Office. "George Blue Spruce is a pioneer, a leader, and an inspiration to all of us," said Dr. Gist.
The three-year CDHC pilot project, funded by the ADA with assistance from Henry Schein, Inc., will run through 2012, at which point three cohorts (classes) of students will have graduated and begun working in underserved communities.
"A key element of this project is cultural competence," said Dr. Gist. "Too often, people entering communities with which they aren't familiar can encounter cultural or language barriers that impede their abilities to serve the host population. Most CDHCs won't face these barriers, because they are being recruited from the same communities in which they serve. In addition to helping people improve their own oral health, they are serving as role models. The CDHC program is also creating jobs in the target communities."
About the American Dental Association
The not-for-profit ADA is the nation's largest dental association, representing 157,000 dentist members. The premier source of oral health information, the ADA has advocated for the public's health and promoted the art and science of dentistry since 1859. The ADA's state-of-the-art research facilities develop and test dental products and materials that have advanced the practice of dentistry and made the patient experience more positive. The ADA Seal of Acceptance long has been a valuable and respected guide to consumer dental care products. The monthly The Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA) is the ADA's flagship publication and the best-read scientific journal in dentistry. For more information about the ADA, visit www.ada.org. For more information on oral health, including prevention, care and treatment of dental disease, visit the ADA's consumer website www.MouthHealthy.org.
About A.T. Still University
Founded in 1892 as the nation's first college of osteopathic medicine, A.T. Still University provides graduate level education in whole person healthcare. Recognized internationally for its integrated approach, ATSU equips students with the knowledge, compassion, and hands-on experience needed to address the body, mind, and spirit. The University now comprises the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, the School of Health Management, the Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health, the Arizona School of Health Sciences, and the School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona.


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Oak Lawn officials banned John Kelly from coaching for one year after a parent reportedly spotted the post by Kelly using the "n"-word, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Kelly used the racial slur to complain about the amount of media coverage Houston's death brought.
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Abd al-Hamid al-Katib on the Identity of the Bureaucracy
A lecture by Wadad Kadi, University of Chicago
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Wadad Kadi is the Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago, where she was Professor of Islamic Thought at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from 1988 until her retirement in 2009, and Editor of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies from 2007 until 2009. Born in Lebanon, she received her higher education at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and in Tuebingen, Germany, and has taught at AUB, Harvard, Columbia, and Yale, before going to Chicago. During her career she received several honors and awards, including the King Faisal International Prize in Arabic Literature in 1994 and the presidency of the American Oriental Society in 2003-04, in addition to two fellowships at Oxford . For several years she was Associate Editor of the Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (Brill) and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (Princeton); and she is now in her fifteenth year as co-editor of the book series "Islamic History and Civilization" at Brill's in Leiden.
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One of the best speech's I've read ever!! Please read!! I started to bold, but then realized I'd have to bold the whole thing!!
Empowerment of Women
by Yasmin Mojahid
When the companion of the Prophet, pbuh, entered a town to bring them the message of Islam, he put it very beautifully. He said, "I have come to free you from the servitude of the slave and bring you to the servitude of the Lord of the slave."
Within this statement lies a powerful treasure. Locked within these words, is the key to empowerment and the only real path to liberation.
You see, the moment you or I allow anything, other than our Creator, to define our success, our failure, our happiness, or our worth, we have entered into a silent, but destructive form of slavery. That thing which defines my self worth, my success and my failure is what controls me. And it becomes my Master.
The master which has defined a woman's worth, has taken many forms throughout time. One of the most prevalent standards made for woman, has been the standard of men. But what we so often forget is that God has honored the woman by giving her value in relation to Himself—not in relation to men. Yet, as western feminism erased God from the scene, there was no standard left—but men. As a result the western feminist was forced to find her value in relation to a man. And in so doing she had accepted a faulty assumption. She had accepted that man is the standard, and thus a woman can never be a full human being until she becomes just like a man: the standard.
When a man cut his hair short, she wanted to cut her hair short. When a man joined the army, she wanted to join the army. She wanted these things for no other reason than because the "standard" had them.
What she didn't recognize was that God dignifies both men and women in their distinctiveness–not in their sameness. When we accept men as the standard, suddenly anything uniquely feminine becomes by definition inferior. Being sensitive is an insult, becoming a full-time mother—a degradation. In the battle between stoic rationality (considered masculine) and selfless compassion (considered feminine), rationality reigned supreme.
As soon as we accepted that everything a man has and does is better, all that followed was just a knee jerk reaction: if men have it—we want it too. If men pray in the front rows, we assume this is better, so we want to pray in the front rows too. If men lead prayer, we assume the imam is closer to God, so we want to lead prayer too. Somewhere along the line we'd accepted the notion that having a position of worldly leadership is some indication of one's position with God.
But a Muslim woman does not need to degrade herself in this way. She has God as the standard. She has God to give her value; she doesn't need a man to do this.
Given our privilege as women, we only degrade ourselves by trying to be something we're not–and in all honesty–don't want to be: a man. As women, we will never reach true liberation until we stop trying to mimic men, and value the beauty in our own God-given distinctiveness.
And yet, in society, there is another prevalent "master" which has defined for women their worth. And that is the so-called standard of beauty. Since the time we were little, we as women, have been taught a very clear message by society. And that message is: "Be thin. Be sexy. Be attractive. Or…be nothing."
So we were told to put on their make-up and wear their short skirts. Instructed to give our lives, our bodies, our dignity for the cause of being pretty. We came to believe that no matter what we did, we were worthy only to the degree that we could please and be beautiful for men. So we spent our lives on the cover of Cosmo and we gave our bodies for advertisers to sell.
We were slaves, but they taught us we were free. We were their object, but they swore it was success. Because they taught you that the purpose of your life was to be on display, to attract and be beautiful for men. They had you believe that your body was created to market their cars.
But they lied.
Your body, your soul was created for something higher. Something so much higher.
God says in the Quran: 'Verily, the most honored of you in the sight of God is the one who is most righteous' (Quran 49:13).
So you are honored. But it is not by your relationship to men—either being them, or pleasing them. Your value as a woman is not measured by the size of your waist or the number of men who like you. Your worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And your purpose in life–despite what the fashion magazines say–is something more sublime than just looking good for men.
Our completion comes from God and our relationship with Him. And yet, from the time we were little, we, as women, have been taught, that we will never reach completion until a man comes to complete us. Like Cinderella we were taught that we are helpless unless a prince comes to save us. Like Sleeping Beauty, we were told that our life doesn't fully begin, until Prince Charming kisses us. But here's the thing: no prince can complete you. And no knight can save you. Only God can.
Your prince is only a human being. God may send him to be your companion—but not your savior. The coolness of your eyes—not the air in your lungs. Your air is in God. Your salvation and completion are in His nearness—not the nearness to any created thing. Not the nearness to a prince, not the nearness to fashion or beauty or style.
And so I ask you to unlearn. I ask you to stand up and tell the world that you are a slave to nothing—not to fashion, not to beauty, not to men. You are a slave to God and God alone. I ask you to tell the world that you're not here to please men with your body; You're here to please God. So to those who mean well and wish to 'liberate' you, just smile and say: "Thanks, but no thanks."
Tell them you're not here to be on display. And your body is not for public consumption. Make sure the world knows that you will never be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. You are a soul, a mind, a servant of God. And your worth is defined by the beauty of that soul, that heart, that moral character. So, you don't worship their beauty standards; you don't submit to their fashion sense. Your submission is to something higher.
Therefore, in answering the question of where and how a woman can find empowerment, I find myself led back to the statement of our Prophet's companion. I find myself led back to the realization that true liberation and empowerment lies only in freeing oneself from all other masters, all other definitions. All other standards.
As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don't need society's standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth. We don't need to become just like men to be honored, and we don't need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lies not in the slave.
But, in the Lord of the slave.
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Asalaamu Alaikum
...true liberation and empowerment lies only in freeing oneself from all other masters
Definitely an article worth reading!
We seem to have a malaise within our Ummah of being unable to distinguish between means and ends.
Marriage, for example, should only be ever seen as a 'means' to the ultimate 'end' of drawing oneself nearer to our Creator.
Unfortunately, there are many who see it as a goal, in and of itself, and consequently wonder why all is not rosy once reality kicks in.
Say: "O ye my servants who believe! Fear your Lord, good is (the reward) for those who do good in this world. Spacious is God's earth! those who patiently persevere will truly receive a reward without measure!" [39:10]
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This article was amazing! Liks sis Jannah, there were too many points to highlight that were very poignant.
I think the best part of marriage would be to love each other and help each other get closer to Allah and get to heaven togehter. We were all made for worship to Allah, and we should strive to become worthy of him, not try to fit societies or mens ideals of what a perfect woman is like.
I like this article because it reminds us that Allah has given women freedom and independance, and we should hold onto and cherish it.
Jazakallah for the article
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Oh, and you fireplace owners? I'm not bitter...really. But be forewarned - I may invite myself over soon. (Don't worry though... I'll bring the wine!)
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4. Emily Henderson
5. Anthology
6. Small Bird
7. House to Home
8. The Holiday Guide by Emily Henderson
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I have the candleholder shown in the first photo. It looks supercool. Only problem is it does not hold the candles very straight -- and it gets candle wax everywhere.
I love these roundups. #12 and #18 are my favorites. Absolutely gorgeous, but not overdone.
Those slipcovers in the first photo are hideous.
AGH! Those wreaths in the first pic are gonna catch fire!!!
BUSY, busy, Busy, BUsy, bUSy, bUsy, BUSy, bUSY, BUsy! too many intensely decorated mantles for me!!
There's some great inspiration here - I spied a few things, that I already have, that I'd never thought of adding to my mantle before - thanks!
Great roundup.
I put a favorite menorah on the mantle (but not to light, since it's in front of a large painting).
Any idea where the wine glasses in the house to home picture are from? They're too cool!
As someone who actually heats her home with wood (two woodstoves), my first thought at seeing number two was "U R doing it wrong." BUT then I saw number five, with books in the fireplace, and had to shudder. So relieved to see actual fire in some of the later fireplace examples.
Still, all in all, a nice round-up with plenty of inspiration.
I usually go a little more spare, but there is a lot of good inspiration - I'm thinking about building a white on white wreath next year, and these reassure me it will still be festive. Really like C&B #12, too.
I'm curious about how many people go as "all out" as these rooms when they decorate for the holidays...
I add a tree, I add some (faux) pine garland, lights and ornaments to the mantle along with the carved dragon and finials already there, and put a few small things around elsewhere, but I wouldn't even think of replacing existing art with something seasonal (including replacing the painting over the fireplace with a wreath or whatever...)
Do you "redecorate" for the holidays, or just add some decorations like me?
Love the candleholders in the first photo and I know someone above said they have them, but didn't say where they are from. Can you tell me whose they are?


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Let me share that of course radiant (or illuminating) qualities of poams may pass through us --for myself, this passage is much closer to certainty: I believe that radiant qualities of poams pass through me whether or not they do in any measurable reality.
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This comes from a comment I left in Maxell's Blog
"Please don't overlook the poam configurations that exist within a scale that seems like incredible brevity from the human scale --poam configurations which may endure only as long as a lightning flash --sometimes the evidence is only a radiant pulse we (think) that we feel, we believe that we have experienced even when there is no proof but our commitment to belief.
So please watch some of the videos in the link below about the poam configurations that occur. often incredibly briefly, in the work of "nature collaborator" Andy Goldsworthy (don't you find how he self-identifies so illuminating? He tags himself with identifiers in a manner that maybe perceived as similar to Elizabeth Bishop tagging her sestina poam "Sestina." Consider the certainty that something has been correctly identified in such tagging).
You Tube excerpts from "Rivers and Tides," a documentary about Andy Goldsworthy in acts of making:
What can you say about intention when the poam melts, floats away, collapses, is carried away in its components by water, etc.?
Who is this for?
What is the value?
Why work so hard for something that does not result in the kind of monuments that often indicate human presence? Monuments perhaps designed to outlast us --why?
How do we study such poams that no longer exist? --only the record of the poam having happened remains
But then again, and I urge you to think carefully about this; but then again, why assume that what is on the print page IS the poam? In some ways, is not the print object a record of the event as it occurs in the mind and feelings of the maker? Is not the illumination something that (sometimes, when the maker is lucky) occurs in the impulse to make, in the act of making? And while the print object may illuminate those who experience it, what is being experienced may be a model of what the maker experienced to produce the print object and not the actual poam event."
Here is a chromatic motion print (a map) of the sonic tracks made by a Claude Debussy piano poam, as incorporated by Nick in his posted response to this post:
According to Nick: "This work takes the piano score and visually shows the song as it progresses. There is also an interesting representation of color in the piece, which helps to remind of Debussy's quote about color, music and ideas."
Perhaps more tangible is reminding us to (re)consider what we may assume is moving through our bodies although we usually do not see the subcutaneous travels of blood (though we may see the mapping of veins and arteries under the skin, may see pools of bruise blossoming).
The electrical coding of idea in our neural networks in not usually seen, but does happen, is happening as I type, as you read.
As stated in this description of a part of Body Atlas
at Ambrose Video where the series is available:
"Day and night, there's a clock ticking within our bodies. This clock is driven by chemicals in our blood-stream, the body's hormones. Made by half a dozen glands scattered throughout the body, hormones provide the unseen balance within our bodies that keeps our systems in harmony."
(image from Ambrose Video)
There are yet other instances of sensory awakenings as a result of unseen particles and waves passing through us (indeed, when to >i>see an object is to have unseen mechanisms deliver a rendering of an object to the optic nerve. There are occasions when unseen neural events allow, for instance: . The name for these a typical perceptual events is Synesthesia. The outcomes of cross-sensory interactions are synesthesian poams
Brainwaves (image from Corante (Brain Waves monthly archives)
Jane Mackay painted 'ÄúTchaikovsky'Äôs First Piano Concerto'Ä? to creat a synaesthetic composition that bridges the gap between sight and sound. (Credit: Jane Mackay)
(image and image caption from Yale Scientific)
Consider this illuminating imagining as you prepare your system of course enclousure(s):
(image from Synethesia Research)
Another take on transient forms passing through, interacting with the body unseen is part of the Story of Pakistan
Commentary about dreaming and neutrinos are at Science Musings Blog
--And do not forget what happens when we do, at some moment, Go Gentle into that Good Night:
the passage of consciousness through? out? of the body?
--Is it the very idea of the self that departs?
that degrades?
--even Houdini, who promised to return to report what the other side was like, has not done so; even Houdini--.
Harry Houdini, who himself built a career on creating illusions, was critical of "spirit photographs." To expose the fraud, he photographed himself with the ghost of Abraham Lincoln.
(image and caption from: Wasington Post.com where the image source is listed as Library of Congress
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NASHVILLE, TN – Growing up in the small Georgia community of Crestview, Unincorporated, Columbia Nashville artist Joanna Smith knew she was destined to sing country music. At age five she told a judge at a talent contest, "I am already a country music singer, but I don't get to get onstage much." She got to sing on stage that night and has been singing ever since. Now, the sassy singer-songwriter debuts on the national stage with her debut single, "Gettin' Married."
"Gettin' Married" is the story of a single woman who is holding out as she watches all her girlfriends tie the knot. " It's a girls-night-out type song. It's fun and a little irreverent," Joanna says. "The song really wrote itself. Jeffrey Steele Tom Hambridge, and I had just finished writing and we were trying to schedule a time to get together again. I mentioned I couldn't because I had to go home and be in a wedding and that all my girlfriends are gettin' married, and Jeffrey said, 'That's a song, let's write it!' So we did, right then and there."
While Joanna always knew she wanted to be a country music singer, the journey to Nashville came after she spent a year at Auburn University. Once she moved to Nashville, she landed herself a steady gig at the World Famous Tootsie's Orchid Lounge. She's played there regularly for the past four years -- "It was the school of hard knocks and I got my degree!"
Along with her "degree from Tootsie's" Joanna has some impressive recommendations on her resume from artists like Miranda Lambert who exclaimes, "I love what she does!...no frills or fuss...another kick-ass chick!" and Patty Loveless who says, "Joanna sings with such a pure heart and an honest passion."
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